Gandhinagar, 6 February, 2012

A group of 20 students from different districts of Jammu and Kashmir on a tour of Gujarat expressed their admiration at the latter’s level of development and wished a similar atmosphere of peace prevailed in their home state as well.

The students on the tour under Central Government’s cultural exchange programme called, ‘Vatan Ko Jano’, had called on Chief Minister Narendra Modi at Gandhinagar on late Sunday evening. They visited Kankaria Kids City and Science City in Ahmedabad and Rann Utsav in Kutch.

One student even asked the Chief Minister that since he had changed the face of Gujarat into an icon of development could he do it for India, too.

In a role reversal of sorts, Mr. Modi said that earlier Kashmir used to be centre of attraction for tourists from Gujarat and now tourists from Kashmir are coming to Gujarat. He said that Gujarat Government felicitated the 500,000th tourist to the picturesque site of Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam across River Narmada.

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